The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-05-11
THE LAST TRIBUTES.
A Wonderful Demonstration Of the Popular
Love for q Good Man.
MIR. DePauw's Funeral Yesterday at New
Albany-Ten Thousand Spectators
The Details in Full.
Special to the Sentinel.

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NEW ALBANY, Ind, May 9.-The funeral
of the late Hon. w. G. DePauw occurred
this afternoon. 1t was wonderful demon
stration of the popular love for the enter
prising, public-spirited and good man.
The city was draped in the emblems of
mourning, all business entirely suspended,
the public schools in vacation and the
courts all adjourned. There were tolling
bells, flags at half-mast, and on all sides
evidences of public mourning and personal
grief. Over 5000 working men appeared
on foot, the city officials and Council, OFF,
GERS of the county and the courts, ministers
of the Gospel from all parts of the State
and many from neighborng States, del
egations of prominent business men,
church officials from Chicago, Indiana
polls, Louisville, st. Louis, Cincinnati and
many of the cities and towns of Indiana in
hacks, and hundreds of our own citizens In
carriages were in line. A delegation from
the faculty of DePauw University and two
hundred students from that institution,
together with Company E, DePauw Cadets,
as guard of honor, Masons and Odd
Fellows, and delegations from temperance
organizations, helped to swell the immense
procession. All the streets along the line
of march were literally packed with people,
the number being estimated at fully ten
thousand. Such an offering, so sincere and
the memory of an Indianan; such
a tribute was never before paid to the pure
christian character of a private citizen !;
such acknowledgement was never before
made in Indiana to great and wise phi
lanthropist and public benefactor. 1t was
a wonderful display of public affection for
man whose greatest ambition in life was
to give the people employment, help the
poor and advance the cause of religion
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were held at the large suburban mansion
of the deceased. Rev. H. j. Talbot, pas
tor of deceased at Centenary NJ. E. Church,
opened the services with an eloquent
eulogv and a memoir. Professor John
Poucher, of the theological college of De-
Pauw University, followed with a grand
address. Rev. DR.. Charles Hutchinson, of
the Third Presbyterian Church, spoke ten
derly for the Presbyterians of the city and
State. Rev. Alexander Martin, D. D.,
president of DePauw University,
spoke on Mr.. DePauw's relation to
the university and general eda-
cational interests. Biehop Bowman, of the
NJ. E. Church, delivered the closing ad-
dress, reaching the grandeur of eloquence.
Every one within the sound of the grand
/, old mans voice was moved to tears as he
spoke tenderly of the virtues, the strong
religious faith, the zeal in good works and
DePauw during his life. He described
him truly, not as a money-grabber and
hoarder, out as a man of the vastest busi-
ness comprehension and nerve, whose
charities were up into the millions and
were as freely given as the waters flow
from the hillsides. The floral offerings
were many, and most of them came from
the men who had so long been in the en-
ploy of deceased. There were widows
mites in this line sweet as incense in the
fragrance of their humility, for they were
small in size but aromatic with the hearts
perfume.
The long procession reached the ceme-
terry at $50 p. m, where the casket,
incased in a large, solid mahogany case,
gold aud silver mounted, was placed in a
vault, where it will remain under guard
until the granite sarcophagus which is to
contain it is completed on the beautiful lot
of deceased. There already stands $50,-
600 monument to mark the place of his
last, long sleeping place.